A. G. Harmon
Clinical Assistant Professor
 Lawyering Skills Program

harmon@law.edu

A.G. Harmon received his J.D. from The University of Tennessee, his M.A. from The University of New Hampshire, and his Ph.D. in English from The Catholic University of America. He practiced at Dearborn and Ewing Attorneys in Nashville, Tennessee, primarily in the areas of real estate and banking.

In addition to legal writing, he has taught classes in Jurisprudence, Law and Literature, Advanced Legal Research and Writing, Law Journal Writing, and Law Journal Editing, and the plays of Shakespeare.

A nominee for The Pushcart Prize in the essay, he was a 1998-1999 Richard Weaver Graduate Fellow; winner of the 1995 Glen Writers Fellowship, received the 1994 Milton Center Postgraduate Writing Fellowship, and was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2003. He has written numerous articles on Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Law and Literature, and Rhetoric. A regular contributor to Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, his publications include: “Ordered Chaos: Three Films by Paul Thomas Anderson”; “Faith and Doubt in Contemporary Southern Literature”; "Fiction at the End of the Century"; and various interviews and reviews. He has also published “The Case of Edith Stein" in the anthology, Things in Heaven and Earth; "Concepts of Justice in Shakespeare's Problem Plays" proceedings of the College English Association, Middle Atlantic Group; “Lawful Deeds: The Entitlements of Marriage in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well”, Logos, vol.4:3; “Shakespeare’s Carved Saints” (forthcoming from Studies in English Literature); and “‘Sacrifice in the Public Square’: Ciceronian Rhetoric in Thomas More’s Utopia and the Ultimate Ends of Counsel” (forthcoming from Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature).

His novel, A House All Stilled (The University of Tennessee Press 2002), was awarded The Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel in 2002, and was nominated for the Virginia Literary Prize and the Pen-Hemingway Award. A book on the law in Shakespeare—Eternal Bonds, True Contracts: Law and Nature in Shakespeare’s Problem Plays—is forthcoming from State University of New York Press in 2004.